At 22 or 23 years old, Nicole Kidman hardly asked herself any questions: love came first, including Hollywood. In an interview with British “Vogue”, the 59-year-old actress looks back on her relationship with Tom Cruise and the intensity with which she experienced it at the time.
“We fell madly in love, it was as simple as that,” she recalls. When those around her warned her that marrying one of cinema’s biggest stars could harm her own career, the young actress didn’t care. “I’m in love. I want to be married,” she thought. What if we had to give up cinema? “Of course I was going to give up my career. I don’t care.”
Decades later, Nicole Kidman has just experienced another breakup. Her marriage to Keith Urban ended after nineteen years. Their separation was made public last September and their divorce finalized in early January 2026.
His experience with Tom Cruise does not necessarily help him to better face this new ordeal. Asked whether a high-profile first breakup makes it easier to manage the next one, she simply answers: “Everything is new.”
The actress admits to having gone through moments of great fragility. She now describes her future as “totally uncertain” and says she has sometimes felt “very anxious and deeply vulnerable”. But she refuses to let herself be paralyzed by this uncertainty. She wants to keep trying, even if it means making mistakes, falling and starting again. Today, she says she looks to the future with “a lot of hope”.
His children as an anchor
During this turbulent period, his family became his main refuge. Nicole Kidman assures that she would be ready to give up everything for her children and above all wishes to convey to them a conviction: whatever the difficulties encountered, they will never be alone.
Her summer also shows that she does not intend to remain locked in her pain. London, Ibiza, Paris, Portofino: the actress treated herself to a real “European summer”. In Ibiza, his evenings oscillate between Scrabble and night outs. “I either play Scrabble or go out. It’s that simple.”
When she chooses to party, she can even put on a dark wig to make it easier to go incognito. In Portofino, she found herself on stage, tambourine in hand.
Behind these light parentheses, however, Nicole Kidman knows what she needs most today to move forward: to be surrounded. “As long as I have people with me, I’m fine.”
